Presented by the Japanese Cancer Association and Debiopharm Group™, the ‘JCA-Mauvernay Award 2014’ goes to Doctors Hara and Shibata

Lausanne, Switzerland – September 26, 2014 – Debiopharm Group™ (Debiopharm), a Swiss-based global biopharmaceutical company developing prescription drugs that target unmet medical needs and companion diagnostics for personalized medicine, will be presenting the ‘JCA-Mauvernay Award’ on September 27 to Doctors Eiji Hara from the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research for his basic research on Cellular senescence and cancer: a gut microbial connection and Tatsuhiro Shibata from the National Cancer Center Research Institute for his applied research on Identification and clinical translation of novel diagnostic and therapeutic targets in intractable solid cancers by cancer genome/transcriptome sequencing.